Thank you, Andreas. I will try it today (and commit it if you don't
have svn access).

Claudio

On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 9:48 AM, Andreas Vögele
<andr...@andreasvoegele.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> attached is an alternative padre.desktop file. There are GenericNames in
> several languages (inspired by KDE's quanta.desktop file). I've added a
> MimeType key and appended %F to the Exec key, which allows Perl files to be
> opened with Padre from file managers. The Comment key is taken from Debian's
> padre.desktop file.
>
> The Categories key is set to "Development;IDE" since that's what most of the
> other IDEs do. Also, according to
> L<http://standards.freedesktop.org/menu-spec/latest/apa.html> "Application"
> and "Perl" are not registered categories.
>
> The Encoding key is gone. According to
> L<http://standards.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/latest/apc.html> it is
> deprecated.
>
> There's a padre.desktop.README file in Padre's "share" subdirectory that
> says "Change the hardcoded paths in padre.desktop to your corresponding
> installation. This will be automated later". That's not required. According
> to the Desktop Entry Specification "the executable is looked up in the $PATH
> environment variable if no full path is provided". There's also no need to
> give the application icon's full path. The Icon Theme Specification
> available at L<http://standards.freedesktop.org/icon-theme-spec/icon-theme
> spec-latest.html> specifies where application icons are supposed to be
> installed and how they are looked up.
>
> --
> Regards,
> Andreas
>
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